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Holiness

As Christians who seek to follow the Lord in all His ways, we often turn the
other cheek and thereby can seem defenseless to the world that wants
to take advantage of God’s people. However, our Father is indeed ...Read More

God intervened two thousand years ago to cleanse His people and make
them holy, first in His declaration and then in their Spirit-enabled practice.
Of course, we still struggle with sin as we wait for this work to be finished ...Read More

We are often tempted to trivialize God’s demand for holiness and instead
look to somebody or something other than God as the standard by which
we measure ourselves. Remember, though, that the Lord has pronounced
judgment on His image ...Read More

John Calvin, in his commentary on today’s passage, notes how many people
might view the Lord’s treatment of Nadab and Abihu as overly harsh. Yet,
he writes, “If we reflect how holy a thing God’s worship is ...Read More

The Lord is transcendent — high above us as our Lord and Sovereign. Yet this is not a distant and wrathful lordship, for in Christ we no longer have to fear eternal judgment. In fact, Jesus has made us friends with ...Read More

We are not a people defined by Sinai and the covenant given there; rather, we are adopted into God’s family under the new covenant and enjoy the privilege of being able to come into His presence. We enter this ...Read More

Legalism is the inevitable result when we fail to remember that the cross was the high point of redemptive history, not the covenant ratified at Sinai. As we meditate on the cross, we recall the glory seen in His death ...Read More

We must not try to find answers to questions God has never answered (Deut. 29:29). The Lord has told us all we need to know in this present sinful age, and trusting Him involves us acknowledging that there are ...Read More

One compelling evidence for the deity of Christ is that those who saw Him in His majesty reacted as Isaiah did when he was granted a vision of the Lord (see Isa. 6:1–6 and the passages for further ...Read More

How do you feel when the name of the Lord is taken in vain? Do you shudder in fear for those who do so, or has this common sacrilege become unnoticeable to you? Perhaps you are guilty of profaning His ...Read More

From delaying Adam’s eternal death after he sinned to the grace shown the church today, it is clear our Father gives mercy to the unworthy. But we must never use this grace as a license to sin or believe ...Read More

How do you view your own good deeds? Have you convinced yourself that you are as holy as the Lord has commanded you to be? Maybe you take sin lightly, imagining that God is inherently obligated to forgive unrepentant transgressors ...Read More

Among the many differences between the Bible and other religious texts is its view of the unsurpassable holiness of God. His purity is absolute and essential to His being in Scripture; it is something He will not compromise (Heb. 12 ...Read More

The holiness that Peter speaks of is to permeate our entire being. It is to be reflective of who we are, how we think, what we do, and what we say. If you are in Christ, God has already set ...Read More